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Exchange Move Mailbox Experiences Part 5

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:21:42 +0000

Another interesting Move Mailbox error and in this case I am really unsure how this would be possible!

Let's look at the Move Mailbox log:

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1-10-2011 11:49:18 [The Exchange Server] A corrupted item was encountered during the move operation. The item wasn't copied to the destination mailbox.
<baditem id="0000000088B41EB2A774E14BA3B29759527EBBD007007A08E4E185746A45BF5C6EF2A17E8D5500000590285800007A08E4E185746A45BF5C6EF2A17E8D550000059028720000" flags="0x00000000" errorcode="0x80004005" errortype="MapiExceptionMaxSubmissionExceeded">
 <folder id="0000000088B41EB2A774E14BA3B29759527EBBD001007A08E4E185746A45BF5C6EF2A17E8D550000059028580000">Top of Information Store</folder>
 <sender>John Doe</sender>
 <recipient></recipient>
 <subject>archive.pst</subject>
 <messageclass>IPM.Document.PSTFile</messageclass>
 <size>38621879</size>
 <datesent>01/19/2006 14:30:57</datesent>
 <datereceived>01/19/2006 14:30:19</datereceived>
 <errormessage>Message (size 36.83 MB (38,621,879 bytes)) exceeds the maximum allowed size for submission to the target mailbox. You can increase this limit by using the Set-Mailbox cmdlet in the Exchange Management Shell.
Error details: MapiExceptionMaxSubmissionExceeded: IExchangeFastTransferEx.TransferBuffer failed (hr=0x80004005, ec=1242)

This error occurs because of a size constraint just like the one in the previous part.

But the strange part is that it seems to be a PST file (type IPM.Document.PSTFile) located in the Root folder of the Exchange mailbox (which is not possible AFAIK).

Exchange Move Mailbox Experiences Part 4

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:43:23 +0000

The previous part (part 3) addressed Mailbox Size but did you know that even Message Size (or rather Item size) can prevent a successful move as well?

Here's an example move mailbox log:

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2-10-2011 3:18:58 [The Exchange Server] A corrupted item was encountered during the move operation. The item wasn't copied to the destination mailbox.
<baditem id="00000000469F68BB3AD7E745B2B8A041FC1B688C07007A08E4E185746A45BF5C6EF2A17E8D55000001537A9D00007A08E4E185746A45BF5C6EF2A17E8D55000001540FF30000" flags="0x00000000" errortype="MapiExceptionMaxSubmissionExceeded" errorcode="0x80004005">
 <folder id="00000000469F68BB3AD7E745B2B8A041FC1B688C01007A08E4E185746A45BF5C6EF2A17E8D55000001537A9D0000">verzonden nov 2004-aug 2005</folder>
 <sender>Jane Doe
 <recipient></recipient>
 <subject>Foto's afscheid John Doe 10 februari jl.</subject>
 <messageclass>IPM.Note</messageclass>
 <size>76121694</size>
 <datesent>02/15/2005 15:28:06</datesent>
 <datereceived>02/15/2005 15:28:06</datereceived>
 <errormessage>Message (size 72.6 MB (76,121,694 bytes)) exceeds the maximum allowed size for submission to the target mailbox. You can increase this limit by using the Set-Mailbox cmdlet in the Exchange Management Shell.
Error details: MapiExceptionMaxSubmissionExceeded: IExchangeFastTransferEx.TransferBuffer failed (hr=0x80004005, ec=1242)
Diagnostic context:

As you can see in the log this mailbox there is one item with a size of 72 MegaBytes.

Exchange Move Mailbox Experiences Part 3

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:08:21 +0000

In Part 2 I showed some details about Mailbox Rule corruptions that can disturb Mailbox Moves.

For this part the topic is Mailbox size, which can be an important factor in deciding which mailboxes you want to move first.

In my case the mailbox size was important because we agreed to move smaller mailboxes during the day but larger mailboxes only outside working hours.

For Exchange 2010 mailboxes it's very easy to obtain the size using PowerShell.

Example:

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Get-Mailbox "rweijnen" | Get-MailboxStatistics | select DisplayName, ItemCount, TotalItemSize

 <td valign="top" width="70" align="right">ItemCount</td>

 <td valign="top" width="230" align="right">TotalItemSize</td>
</tr>

<tr>
 <td valign="top" width="130">Remko Weijnen</td>

 <td valign="top" width="70" align="right">313</td>

 <td valign="top" width="230" align="right">34.87 MB (36,564,183 bytes</td>
</tr>

DisplayName

But how can we get the Mailbox Size for Exchange 2003 mailboxes?